It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away. - Anthony Trollope

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself.

The bishop did not whistle. We believe that they lose the power of doing so on being consecrated; and that in these days one might as easily meet a corrupt judge as a whistling bishop; but he looked as though he would have done so, but for his apron.

He must have known me had he seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognise me by my face.